Jeremiah 9:11-15

11“I will make Jerusalem into a heap of ruins,” says the Lord. “It will be a place haunted by jackals. The towns of Judah will be ghost towns, with no one living in them.”

12Who is wise enough to understand all this? Who has been instructed by the Lord and can explain it to others? Why has the land been so ruined that no one dares to travel through it?

13The Lord replies, “This has happened because my people have abandoned my instructions; they have refused to obey what I said.

14Instead, they have stubbornly followed their own desires and worshiped the images of Baal, as their ancestors taught them.

15So now, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: Look! I will feed them with bitterness and give them poison to drink.